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Unit4 moves on from Advent as TA Associates buys in at $2 billion valuation This article is sponsored by:

Unit4 CEO Mike Ettling plans acquisitions and US growth after TA Associates buys out its longstanding private equity owner Advent International in $2 billion deal

Study - accelerated by the pandemic, people trust robots more than humans to manage money This article is sponsored by:

As financial anxieties and stress shot up through the pandemic, consumers and business leaders have turned to artificial intelligence to take the strain. Juergen Lindner breaks down the findings from Oracle's latest research.

Human and robot shaking hands over stacked coins AI finance trust concept © Andrey_Popov - Shutterstock

Enterprise hits and misses - COVID-19's digital lessons take hold, Uber gets a gig economy wake-up call, and an enterprise buyer debate takes hold This article is sponsored by:

This week - pulling COVID-19 digital lessons from the education sector - but will they stick? Plus: the enterprise buyer one-throat-to-choke debate heats up again. Uber must give UK drivers "worker" status, and tech companies' "diversity theater" gets called out. In the whiffs section, I backtrack on NFTs.

Monday Morning Moan - how the UK plans to digitally transform its health service (a.k.a. this time it’ll work, honest, it will!) This article is sponsored by:

Here we go again - let's digitize the NHS! A noble ambition perhaps, but the track record of such efforts in government - and the individuals driving them - leaves a lot to be desired.

A tale of two digital transformation studies - views on Smart Manufacturing and 4IR from Plex and PTC This article is sponsored by:

Recent studies from Plex and PTC are not only directional, but inform us as to how manufacturers see Smart Manufacturing/Fourth Industrial Revolution initiatives in the pandemic age.

Operator checks automated robot in digital manufacturing © PopTika - shutterstock

Cloud services COVID ‘good war’ - three Dynatrace use cases This article is sponsored by:

Real world use cases make the proof points for the management challenges associated with ever more complex cloud services.

Hands break chains of technical debt with bright clouds © Merydolla - shutterstock

Musing on Chief Revenue Officers - do we need them at all? This article is sponsored by:

As a job title, Chief Revenue Officers are trending. But is CRO a needed role? And if so, how is it defined? Are there other ways to oversee revenue growth and accountability?

British Government - once again - aims for ‘one login for government’ This article is sponsored by:

The Parliamentary Secretary for the Cabinet Office confirmed this week that GOV.UK Verify is dead in the water and outlined the government’s plans for future single sign-on access.

Williams Sonoma's digital transformation marathon models a strong design for the Vaccine Economy's new world of retail This article is sponsored by:

Williams Sonoma has put the time, the effort and the money into omni-channel transformation over the years; it paid off in the COVID crisis and sets the retailer up well for the post-pandemic world.

The Zen of workplace data privacy - Zoho's Raju Vegesna on productivity monitoring, privacy as a best-of-breed weakness, and Google's "cookieless" campaign This article is sponsored by:

Software vendors claim workplace data privacy is neutral - wrong. Products influence culture. And is Google's "cookieless" announcement PR hype, or a breakthrough? Time to revisit Zoho's stance on data privacy - via a 1:1 with Raju Vegesna.

Privacy threat at work - laptop with eyes in screen © Juergen Faelchle - shutterstock

IFS Cloud - how Cubic enables stations as a service on the London Underground This article is sponsored by:

Service today is about much more than break-fix. Cubic's management of London's contactless fare infrastructure shows the XaaS Effect in operation

Contactless turnstile gates at London Bridge underground station © Lubo Ivanko - shutterstock

Maximize 2021 - bacon, Bat-phones and banging it out at BioTek This article is sponsored by:

Life sciences firm BioTek has been using ServiceMax's Zinc collaborative messaging offering for six years, but the past 12 months of the COVID pandemic has seen uptake soar.

PagerDuty delivers strong Q4 as buyers extend use case beyond ITOps This article is sponsored by:

PagerDuty continued to grow during the COVID-19 pandemic, as buyers recognised that operations management is critical in a digital, always-on environment.